[governance] Re: [bestbits] Fwd: Re: [discuss] cgi.br release regarding Brazil Global MSM on Internet Governance

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Harking back to an old Aesop fable, king LOG to be replaced by king stork? 

Essentially, if political jockeying for committee seats rather an constructive engagement becomes the order of the day, we end up with the politically best connected group running things, which doesn't sound quite ideal.

--srs (iPad)

> On 12-Jan-2014, at 21:35, "Carlos A. Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
> 
> The obvious meaning is simply that the two structures (CGI.br and the
> /1Net platform) are helping to organize the meeting -- they do not "own"
> it. The phrase could be better written, I agree.
> 
> BTW, as soon as the committees are formed and start their work, the
> local organizing group (LOG) will lose its meaning and will dissolve.
> But I think this is obvious too.
> 
> frt rgds
> 
> --c.a.
> 
>> On 01/11/2014 03:19 AM, parminder wrote:
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:     Re: [discuss] cgi.br release regarding Brazil Global MSM on
>> Internet Governance
>> Date:     Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:45:00 +0530
>> From:     parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
>> To:     discuss at 1net.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Saturday 11 January 2014 09:49 AM, John Curran wrote:
>>> 1net Participants -
>>> 
>>>    There appears to be an updated announcement regarding the Brazil
>>> meeting -
>>>    http://www.cgi.br/brmeeting/announcement2.html
>> 
>> 
>> from the announcement.
>> 
>> "The meeting is a partnership between CGI.br and /1net."
>> 
>> So, John, do you still hold that 1Net is yet only a discussion space and
>> it is upto its steering committee to make it what it wants to.... Most
>> respectfully, but can we at least now shed this fiction... But of course
>> I will be told now - what can 1Net do if the Brazilians are intent on
>> thrusting this momentous role on 1Net? Of course 1Net did not ask for
>> this role, for there is no 1Net. But then are we allowed to make guesses
>> who did, nay insisted, nay extracted it. Why dont we just play open and
>> fair... Everyone has the right to put their views out forcefully, to
>> make alliances with whoever they can, but this is not that...
>> 
>> This is completely disregarding 4 key civil society networks who said at
>> Bali - and then formally through a letter - that they were not going
>> through 1Net but want to be directly involved in the Brazilian meeting.
>> So, civil society is told, no... your views do not count... And a non
>> existent 1Net is told, well, you take over.... One is really
>> disappointed. This was not what President Rousseff started with. We were
>> trying to make a new start. Seek new directions on where global Internet
>> should go...
>> 
>> parminder
>>> 
>>> FYI,
>>> /John
>>> 
>>> Disclaimer: My views alone.
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